Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt

The film explores the life and career of Hannah Arendt, a German political philosopher of Jewish heritage, born in 1906 and passing in 1975. Arendt sparked controversy with her provocative idea, the “banality of evil,” introduced in her 1963 book about the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. This trial took place in Israel in 1961, and Arendt reported on it for the New Yorker magazine.